Unparalleled Sacrifice Quotes

My mother was a full-time mother. She didn't have much of her own career, her own life, her own experiences... everything was for her children. I will never be as good a mother as she was. She was just grace incarnate. She was the most generous, loving - she's better than me.

My mom, she is the most unbelievable mom that you could ever have in your entire life and she's always with me on everything. The most I've ever been away from her is two days. I love her more than anybody could ever know.

After a life deprived of everything from romantic love to the choice of when to wake up in the morning, after 29 years without the ability to have a career or even to be alone at toilet, the Bijani sisters are not symbols but women who have had to live a shared life of constant, quotidian sacrifice.

This is one of the miracles of love: It gives a power of seeing through its own enchantments and yet not being disenchanted.

Mothers are great. They outlast everything. But when they're bad, they're the worst thing that can happen.

Whatever else is unsure in this stinking dunghill of a world a mother's love is not.

No man can ever repay the brooding mother love to which he his life.

The dearest friend on earth is a mere shadow compared to Jesus Christ.

The love you have for your kids is so overwhelmingly powerful that it alters your perspective. The dark things going on in the world become very poignant and vivid.

I steadfastly believe that there is no greater love than that between a mother and a child.

Someone told me that having a baby is like having your heart walking around outside of your body, and I didn't understand it until I had a baby. Now, like, everything he does literally crushes my heart. In a great way. And then if he's in pain, it's like my whole endeavor is to make sure he's not in pain.

Motherhood is priced Of God, at price no man may dare To lessen or misunderstand.

Mothers are the people who love us for no good reason. And those of us who are mothers know it's the most exquisite love of all.

September 11, 2001, revealed heroism in ordinary people who might have gone through their lives never called upon to demonstrate the extent of their courage.

If I would make a song dedicated to any woman, it would have to be my mom because, you know, she's been there since I came out of her. She would have to be the one... my mom or my daughter.

When we think of the ideal, we do not add virtue to virtue, but think of Jesus Christ, so that the standard of human life is no longer a code, but a character.

My mother passed away young - she died from ovarian cancer at just 54 years old. Her sacrifices for my sisters and I evoke a tribute in her honor each and every Mother's Day.

Carrie is my child, and I love her with every ounce of strength I possess.

Mothers are the only ones that think nothing is beyond their control when it comes to their children.

Some people are that - more than a parent, more than a role model, more than anything less than a religion.

Character is supreme in life, hence Jesus stood supreme in the supreme thing - so supreme that, when we think of the ideal, we do not add virtue to virtue, but think of Jesus Christ, so that the standard of human life is no longer a code but a character.

People look down on teen moms and young mothers when they are the most gracious and significant women on this Earth. They sacrifice their freedom and their lives to give life.

I can't think I've ever loved anybody quite as much... My mother was my life, really; she was my entire world.

I began to encounter real-life stories of dogs protecting their wounded or dying or dead handler... or dogs refusing to leave the bodies of the people they were bonded to, sitting in cemeteries for days or sometimes weeks. You find these stories endlessly.

For me, my mother is everything.